Esmeralda, Etiene and Diana

The place: We think it was a small place because the Mayor hears the dentist’s voice from outside the office. It was a poor office with a window. The window was opposite the chair and it had a curtain. Also the room had a spider web and it had spider’s eggs. In the office, they had the pedal drill, wooden chair, dentist chair, washbasin and spittoon. It had two tables; one was full of instruments and the worktable with the basin of sterilized instruments, including a sterilized bowl. In one of the table was a revolver.

Mayor: He wore a military uniform, and he was with his right face with beard but the left side was shaved. He was with desperation in his eyes; maybe he had dark circles that may he looks tired “dentist saw many nights of desperation in his dull eyes.” We think that he had extremely painful; because he said that he can shoot the dentist if he continues refuse to help him.

Dentist: Aurelio Escovar was a dentist without a degree, without permit. He wore a pant, collarless striped shirt, closed at the neck with a golden stud. He was skinny and rigid. He was concentrate in his work and not happy with the Mayor because he was not smile with him. The dentist didn’t use anesthesia, not because the Mayor had abscess, but because the dentist wanted to revenge the people died. The dentist said to Mayor “now you’ll pay for our twenty dead men.”

Summary: The story of “The Lottery” is about a ritual that takes place every year in the month of June. There were 300 persons living in this village where they believe that if they did not do it something bad would happen to the town. They had put slips of paper in a black box with the same number of people but just one of the pieces of paper was the winning slip. Each person living there had to take one paper even the children. Then the person who took the paper with the black spot on it had to be stoned to death. The game was conducted by Mr. Summers and the person who was in charge of the box was Mr. Bill Hutchinson and that day his wife was the person who “won the lottery.” For everyone, it was very important that the children be present at the stoning because the villagers want the next generation continue the tradition.

The part that I liked was in the beginning, when the people went to the center of the village and the parents wanted the children to be there. I liked that because I thought that something good would happen and I like the way the parents share the lottery experience with their kids.

The part I found confusing was when Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson took the paper and did not want to say that she won the lottery. I was confused because if you win something you want everyone to know but in this case she refused to show the paper.

My questions are: 1. Why would my teacher ask me to read this? I prefer not to read stories such as this one. I am a very susceptible person and I could not concentrate on my things after I read it. 2. How did the tradition start?